[Cryptography] HSM's to be required for Code Signing Certificates

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Mon Jan 30 08:52:40 EST 2017


> This (or the mere count of digital signature operations performed during an
> HSM session, reported in a trustworthy way) is actually missing from the
> most readily documented HSM deployment project, the DNSSEC root KSK
> signature ceremonies held by IANA on a regular basis.

The HSM's used in the SET key-signing included in every reply, an operation count, and a digest of the input parameters.
It was custom code embedded in the HSM by CertCo.  I have one as a souvenir.  I wish all HSM's did that.



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